My small laser has been acting up, every once in a while it will level but not start up, so I thought I'd just take it in to the local fix it shop and get it repaired. Not sure right off what year it is, maybe 10 years old, might be closer to 8, time has a way of getting away from us all.
Well long story short after explaining what it was and wasn't doing, I was told to NOT bring it in, he knew what the problem was, just the parts to fix it have been discontinued and I might as well throw it away and go buy another new one.
First off that whole WTF thing came to mind, then questions about what make and model to buy and if the parts are still available for my larger better quality laser and the answer was, yes, some of them anyhow, but not all so it just depends on what's wrong with that one, well today, nothing for the larger laser, but what about tomorrow if something does go bad??
Have we really came to a complete throw away society, if someone would have told me someday you would go to town and buy a 10k laser and once the warranty is off, toss it into the trash I'm not sure I'd believed them...........but I guess maybe it will shortly come to that. Well my small laser is a Spectra 422, so I guess its not a big deal, pretty cheap by today's standards at only a few grand, but my 722 laser was close to 8k used when I bought it years ago now and the remote and all those controls are obsolete in that I was told.
So the search is on for a replacement laser and I guess repair parts and local fix it guys are no longer something to really consider when buying new, since everything is going to be obsolete before it needs repairs anyhow, so what's out there and what do you guys recommend for a dual slope laser, with maybe pipe capability, never had that before but might have a few jobs coming up that would require it, or buy two or three specific lasers.
I still have my older 722 spectra dual slope, so a single slope would do me just fine, they also make some really nice cheaper pipe lasers that would do whatever I'd need done and not have everything in one package so to speak.
Never considered other brands before, so what do you guys run and how do you like them?? Do you recommend multiple lasers or the newer all on one lasers that are combined, go cheap multiple or better quality. The really ironic part was, the 700 series which is much higher priced and one would assume better quality, only has a two year warranty and the cheaper 400 and 600 series has a 5 year warranty for about a third the money?
The best question of all is, does it really matter in five to ten years if parts are not available for any of them anyhow, once the warranty is off just toss them into the trash and go buy another one was my take on lasers today.
Well long story short after explaining what it was and wasn't doing, I was told to NOT bring it in, he knew what the problem was, just the parts to fix it have been discontinued and I might as well throw it away and go buy another new one.
First off that whole WTF thing came to mind, then questions about what make and model to buy and if the parts are still available for my larger better quality laser and the answer was, yes, some of them anyhow, but not all so it just depends on what's wrong with that one, well today, nothing for the larger laser, but what about tomorrow if something does go bad??
Have we really came to a complete throw away society, if someone would have told me someday you would go to town and buy a 10k laser and once the warranty is off, toss it into the trash I'm not sure I'd believed them...........but I guess maybe it will shortly come to that. Well my small laser is a Spectra 422, so I guess its not a big deal, pretty cheap by today's standards at only a few grand, but my 722 laser was close to 8k used when I bought it years ago now and the remote and all those controls are obsolete in that I was told.
So the search is on for a replacement laser and I guess repair parts and local fix it guys are no longer something to really consider when buying new, since everything is going to be obsolete before it needs repairs anyhow, so what's out there and what do you guys recommend for a dual slope laser, with maybe pipe capability, never had that before but might have a few jobs coming up that would require it, or buy two or three specific lasers.
I still have my older 722 spectra dual slope, so a single slope would do me just fine, they also make some really nice cheaper pipe lasers that would do whatever I'd need done and not have everything in one package so to speak.
Never considered other brands before, so what do you guys run and how do you like them?? Do you recommend multiple lasers or the newer all on one lasers that are combined, go cheap multiple or better quality. The really ironic part was, the 700 series which is much higher priced and one would assume better quality, only has a two year warranty and the cheaper 400 and 600 series has a 5 year warranty for about a third the money?
The best question of all is, does it really matter in five to ten years if parts are not available for any of them anyhow, once the warranty is off just toss them into the trash and go buy another one was my take on lasers today.